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Donkees

(31,085 posts)
Sat Jul 21, 2018, 11:08 AM Jul 2018

BERNIE SANDERS AND ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ WENT TO WAR WITH PARTISANSHIP IN KANSAS

July 21 2018, 10:04 a.m.

Excerpts:

Though the first of two rallies held Friday was ostensibly in support of James Thompson, a candidate for Kansas’s 4th Congressional District, the gestalt of the day’s remarks was something bigger than any one race. The speeches — particularly Sanders’s — announced a unifying theme that felt too coherent to have been thrown together for a House primary or two. Individually, the remarks were compelling. Together, they comprised an unabashed declaration of post-partisan movement building — a rebuke to those in power who fetishize every identity-based division in order to diffuse the largest coalition in the country: the working class.

Where electoral battles have long been viewed as a struggle over red states and blue states — an effort to dominate the map like advancing armies, on Friday, that partisan dichotomy was evoked only to be dismissed in favor of a narrative that highlights the universal struggles shared by residents in locales as diverse as Kansas and Vermont and the Bronx. Yes: Trump is a racist. Critiques of his immigration policy and calls for criminal justice reform received enthusiastic applause. And yes: Kansas went red in 2016. But Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez, and Thompson each emphasized that the enemy was not a color — not red or blue, nor black or white. It was the 1 percent, people like the three families who, as Sanders pointed out, have more wealth than the bottom half of Americans.

Where there are working-class people, exhorted Ocasio-Cortez, there is hope for the progressive movement. Later, Thompson echoed that sentiment. It’s not about Republicans or Democrats, he said, but about working people coming together.

https://theintercept.com/2018/07/21/bernie-sanders-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-kansas-james-thompson-brent-welder/

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BERNIE SANDERS AND ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ WENT TO WAR WITH PARTISANSHIP IN KANSAS (Original Post) Donkees Jul 2018 OP
Why republicans win, they ensure issues to divide working people... beachbum bob Jul 2018 #1
"It's not about Republicans or Democrats" comradebillyboy Jul 2018 #2
Right DavidDvorkin Jul 2018 #3
Wrong... Dennis Donovan Jul 2018 #7
Was "patriotism" the reason Bernie endorsed Welder over Davids? SunSeeker Jul 2018 #10
... Dennis Donovan Jul 2018 #11
Do YOU think Welder is a patriot and Davids isn't? nt SunSeeker Jul 2018 #12
Top vs Bottom instead of Left vs Right works for me Fiendish Thingy Jul 2018 #4
Why does Bernie always show up to undermine Democrats? Fresh_Start Jul 2018 #5
That was an excellent read. Uncle Joe Jul 2018 #6
Great Message Power 2 the People Jul 2018 #8
Oy. There is only ONE party putting party before country, and that is the GOP. SunSeeker Jul 2018 #9

comradebillyboy

(10,119 posts)
2. "It's not about Republicans or Democrats"
Sat Jul 21, 2018, 11:23 AM
Jul 2018

Well if one completely ignores how American government works it isn't. This is just a variant of the 'both sides' nonsense.

Dennis Donovan

(18,770 posts)
7. Wrong...
Sat Jul 21, 2018, 12:38 PM
Jul 2018

For the first time in my adult life, I find myself on the same side as George Will and Bill Krystal. It's no longer about D vs R, but about who is a patriot and who isn't.

SunSeeker

(51,368 posts)
10. Was "patriotism" the reason Bernie endorsed Welder over Davids?
Sat Jul 21, 2018, 05:25 PM
Jul 2018

Or was it the fact that Welder worked in Bermie's campaign?

Fiendish Thingy

(15,367 posts)
4. Top vs Bottom instead of Left vs Right works for me
Sat Jul 21, 2018, 12:04 PM
Jul 2018

Now, let's see, which candidates tend to support the interests of the Bottom, and which tend to support the Top?

Fresh_Start

(11,330 posts)
5. Why does Bernie always show up to undermine Democrats?
Sat Jul 21, 2018, 12:08 PM
Jul 2018

Couldn't he work his "magic" in a flippable district instead of a democratically held district?
Seems Bernie loves undermining Democrats....

SunSeeker

(51,368 posts)
9. Oy. There is only ONE party putting party before country, and that is the GOP.
Sat Jul 21, 2018, 05:08 PM
Jul 2018

This kind of rhetoric only reinforces the GOP false narrative that the Dems are about party not people. The Democratic Party IS ABOUT EMPOWERING WORKING PEOPLE.

And Bernie's former campaign operative, Welder, is not the only progressive Democrat running. Suggesting only Welder is for the workly class is really offensive. I think Sharice Davids is the better candidate. https://www.shariceforcongress.com/about

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